Creativity and the City

It’s a received wisdom that innovation happens in clusters – if you get enough bright people together they’ll soon spark off each other and the new ideas come rolling out.  Indeed, Rohan Silva – until a few months ago, Downing Street’s technology adviser – last week argued that Britain’s cities “are becoming global centres of technology innovation”.  But do cities have a monopoly of ideas and what are the real engines of creativity?

January 31st 2014

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